Ciena announced that Cox Communications has selected Ciena's ONLINE Metro and ONLINE Edge platforms to support data services on its multiservice broadband communications network. Ciena's ONLINE platforms are helping Cox to deliver video-on-demand, storage area networking and Gigabit Ethernet services to its customers.

The Ciena solution gives Cox flexibility and reliability in metro area networks as it moves to collapse its voice and data platforms to a common infrastructure. Consolidating its existing infrastructure with Ciena's ONLINE multiservice solution will create greater capacity, flexibility and service support across the network. Ciena's ONLINE platform: successfully meet both service provider and enterprise requirements for scalable, high-capacity metropolitan networks. The solutions support cost-effective metropolitan access ant edge multiservice delivery, and offer flexible options for dense service aggregation in fiber rich network environments.